The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27
4 TERRITORIAL LAS.


man was driving thro"S" '"'
.ouu,rv in a Central Dakota county
and cot into conversation with se.'
, tler who was sitting in front Oh n''
, house. , Id
you have a fine farm here ne ss'o
TO the settler.
"Best in the country. stranger
DO YOU raise big crops!'
, Crops? Big crops'
, Eyes, sir. F"
..Weil, Icalculate l do"
, .Tho soil is very rich here. l sup
pose'"
THAT don't express it, rich don't az
If Justice! This sile is perfect abso
luielv perfect, best in the world! 1t II
deep as a we'll. mellow as an ash heap
rich as gold-yes. sir. no other sile IL,
the world will compare tall with III!
.Tm glad to hear it."
SAY, stranger" cont nued the set
tier, Strengthening up. "d'ye hear that
kinder boiler, poundin' sound"'
The man admitted that he dn't
know, but he could hear something.
YES" continued the settler. ''kind'
er boomin' sound like itten' en- empty
bar'l with an old rubber boot"
"Yes, what is it?'
stranger, that's my punkins bein'
yankcd along cross the ground so fast
they bound up N the air every once N
awhile"
"Your pumpkins? What is drawing
them at that rate?'
"The vines, stranger, the vines
they're growing so fast 20 see. We
have to take a fast boss an lasso 'em
when we gather EN-. They'll be bout
wore out. l have to admit this is q
poor place for punkins an squashes.
See that little knoll over there. bout
a hundred yards cross it an twenty
feet hieh?''
That one down there with bushy
tree growing on top of it'"
Y-a-e-s-but it haint no tree-its q
beet top
"Why did you plant it on top Of
the knoll9"
Didn't stranger, ground was per-
fectly level when l planted it there.
Beet so big it has kinder re'red the
ground up all round it and made a
knoll. Planted one next to my house
the first year an it hoisted it up and
pretty near tipped it over"
'.Isn't the season little dry for
them?"
"They 60 down to water, stranger;
that well there is the hole that beet
come out of. l had a crabapple tree
near the house the same year, an the
apples grew so big they busted and
broke all my winders. Want to hear
how we husk corn?'
"Tll try and stand it,
I'VE chop off an ear an let it fall on
the ground and then husk it with a
team--hitch onto the end of husk
and drive 'longside Of the ear an peel
it off and then 60 back after another"
"Slow job"
Eyes, but there's twenty bushels Of
corn when we get through. Twas out
lookin' at my wheat yesterday and a
head of it struck me on the shoulder
an pretty near broke my collar bone y
Yes"
II have TO have gas pipe for my
beans to climb--they are so strong an
squeeze So tight that thuy cut Ii wood.
en- pole in two in dozen places"
Yes"
There was a big rock down on tho
back end of my place bout ten feet
each way an it stuck down into
the ground bout four feet. !
laid reddish seed on the middle of
it an the seed sorter smelt the re-
markablc rich sile down under the
rock, as l might say, an it begun to
grow an down she went, sharp end
first, of course. aud it split the rock in
twenty pieces an drawcd it off.
Yes"
II might tell 70 Of lots of other
things equally as s'prisin' if l had a
mind to-
Il don't doubt it. But see here,
are You telling me all these Internal
lies because you want to sell your
farm?'
"Oh. no. sir; I've just told you the
usual thing. Idon't want to SELL
just do it for the good O. the country.
There's some as want t sell. ye sec.
an we all sortcr pull together--al.
ways do in new country, We know.
The story don't hurt me none an lots
o you darncd fools from the East be.
licvcs it, 1 reckon though that you
have Travelled. Good day; stop if you
should hc goin' past again. "-Dakola
Bell